Bug: Google Social Search Goes Offline Temporarily
Nov 16, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz
Over the weekend, I received several emails, noticed dozens of Tweets, saw several forum posts and noticed for myself that Google Social Search experimental search feature went offline.
If you have opt in to the Social Search feature at google.com/experimental you will notice an error on your Google searches that reads, "The experiment you're trying to access is no longer available. Go to experiments overview."
Google has confirmed this is a temporary issue and that a fix will be in place sometime today or tomorrow. Here is Google's official statement on this matter:
The Google Soci [...]
Filed in: Google: Social Search, Search Engines: Experimental
Are You Ready For Google Local Social Search?
Nov 2, 2009 at 7:00am ET by Andrew Shotland
Google's new social search experiment is kind of a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is it will open up lots of opportunity for smart local search marketers.
Over the past couple of years we've seen social-local search plays like Yelp gather steam while at the same time Google Maps results have slowly started encroaching on more and more Web results. Recently Google added place pages and Google local listing ads which should both start to grab more and more local search attention. In short, as Google improves its local search experience, it will get harder for sites to [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Google: Social Search, Locals Only
Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”
Oct 26, 2009 at 3:38pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Google Social Search is rolling out, a new service from Google that allows you to easily find material written by people you know and trust. It's a pretty cool idea, especially in that it's pretty painless to get started using it. The service will be available through Google Labs Experimental later today. Below, a look at the service.
It's Not Twitter Search; It's Not Real Time Search
Let's first talk about what Social Search is not, to avoid confusion, especially after all the seemingly related news that's come out recently.
Last Wednesday, Bing announced a deal with Twitter to [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Social Search, Top News
Google Social Search Is Coming & More On Google-Twitter
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:02pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Google's Marissa Mayer has announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that Google Social Search will be launching in the coming weeks. I've seen an early release of it. It's way cool. Below, what details we have now about this plus some follow up on today's Google-Twitter search deal that was announced.
NOTE: Google Social Search is now live. See our Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle” post.
I'm in a bind because I can't say more about the product than what Mayer released today. I wasn't able to make it to Web 2.0 nor were her remarks on the product br [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Social Search, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Top News, Twitter
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